Grammarians and grammatical theory in the medieval Arabic tradition / Ramzi Baalbaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baʻlabakkī, Ramzī.

Series:

Collected studies ; CS782.

Collected studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Grammar--Theory, etc.

Arabic language.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : portrait ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Publishing, [2004]

Contents:

Sibawayhi's Kitab

I The book in the grammatical tradition: Development in content and methods (The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, ed. George. N. Atiyeh. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995) 123

II Some aspects of harmony and hierarchy in Sibawayhi's grammatical analysis (Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik II. Wiesbaden, 1979) 7

III A possible early reference to Sibawaihi's Kitab? (Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft CXXXI. Wiesbaden, 1981) 114

IV A contribution to the study of technical terms in early Arabic grammar: The term asl in Sibawayhi's Kitab (A Miscellany of Middle Eastern Articles: In Memoriam

Thomas Muir Johnstone, ed. A.K. Irvine, R.B. Serjeant and G. Rex Smith. Essex: Longman, 1988) 163

V Coalescence as a grammatical tool in Sibawayhi's Kitab (Arabic Grammar and Linguistics, ed. Yasir Suleiman. Edinburgh: Curzon Press, 1999) 86

Grammarians and Related Disciplines

VI The treatment of qira'at by the second and third century grammarians (Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik XV. Wiesbaden, 1985) 11

VII The relation between nahw and balaga: A comparative study of the methods of Sibawayhi and Gurgani (Zeitschrift fur arabische Linguistik XI. Wiesbaden, 1983) 7

VIII A balagi approach to some grammatical sawahid Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Grammar, Budapest, 1-7 September 1991, ed. Kinga Devenyi and Tamas Ivanyi. Budapest: Eotvos Lorand University, 1991) 89

IX Early Arab lexicographers and the use of Semitic languages (Berytus XXXI. Beirut, 1983) 117

X Kitab al- 'ayn and Jamharat al-lugha Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, ed. Karin C. Ryding. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1988 44

Grammatical Theory

XI Arab grammatical controversies and the extant sources of the second and third centuries A.H. (Studia Arabica et Islamica: Festschrift for Ihsan 'Abbas, ed. Wadad al-Qadi. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1981) 1

XII Tawahhum: An ambiguous concept in early Arabic grammar (Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies XLV, part 2. London, 1982) 233

XIII 'I`rab and bina' from linguistic reality to grammatical theory (Studies in the History of Arabic Grammar II. Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on the History of Arabic Grammar, Nijmegen, 27 April-1 May 1987, ed. Kees Versteegh and Michael G. Carter. Amesterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990) 17

XIV Reclassification in Arab grammatical theory (Journal of Near Eastern Studies LIV. Chicago, Ill., 1995) 1

XV Expanding the ma`nawi `awamil: Suhayli's innovative approach to the theory of regimen (al-Abhath XLVII. Beirut, 1999) 23

XVI The occurrence of 'insa' instead of habar: The gradual formulation of a grammatical issue (Linguistique arabe et semitique I. Paris, 2000) 193

XVII Bab al-fa' [fa' + subjunctive] in Arabic grammatical sources (Arabica XLVIII. Leiden, 2001) 186

XVIII Teaching Arabic at university level: Problems of grammatical tradition (Proceedings of the Colloquium on Arabic Linguistics, Bucharest, August 29-Sept. 2, 1994, part 1, ed. Nadia Anghelescu and Andrei A. Avram. Bucharest: University of Bucharest, 1995) 85.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0860789489

OCLC:

52846769